To address fears about mass surveillance and random searches, the police insist fingerprints taken by the scanners will not be stored or added to databases.

The police claim that the technology will speed up and make criminalinvestigation more efficient.

Civil rights group are currently cautioning on what the use of these devices couldmean to the ordinary citizen if used in an improper manner. Such as collectingdata of an individual on random checks and searches...

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